(n.) A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin.

(n.) An actor or player in comedy.

(n.) A writer of comedy.

(a.) English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.

(a.) Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.

(n.) A member of the Church of England.

(n.) In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England.

(n.) Affixture.

(n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale.

(n.) The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism.

(n.) The act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease.

(n.) Annexation.

(a.) Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans.

(n.) One of the Anomura.

(n.) A poisonous principle obtained from antiar.

(n.) A gnawing.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Artois (anciently called Artesium), in France.

(n.) A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.

(n.) A verse said before and after the psalms.

(n.) One of the Ascidioidea, or in a more general sense, one of the Tunicata. Also as an adj.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean; as, the Asmonean dynasty.

(n.) One of the Asmonean family. The Asmoneans were leaders and rulers of the Jews from 168 to 35 b. c.

(n.) That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.

(n.) The act of opening; an opening; an aperture.

(n.) That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the family Aphidae.

(n.) One of the aphides; an aphid.

(a.) Of or relating to bees.

(n.) Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation.

(n.) Acknowledgment.

(a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens.

(a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.

(n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property.

(n.) An agrarian law.

(n.) A dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance.

(n.) The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey.

(n.) A native of Albania.

(n.) Alt. of Puzzolana

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains separating France and Spain.

(n.) The Pyrenees.

(pl. ) of Alderman

(n.) A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity.

(n.) One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.

(a.) Alt. of Aleutic

(n.) A substance convertible into peptone.

(pl. ) of Penwoman

(n.) A female writer; an authoress.

(v. t.) To baptize and give a Christian name to.

(v. t.) To give a name; to denominate.

(v. t.) To Christianize.

(v. t.) To use for the first time.

(v. t.) To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.

(a.) Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top.

(n.) A yellow coal-tar dyestuff which probably consists chiefly of rosolic acid. See Aurin, and Rosolic acid under Rosolic.

(n.) Same as Cordwain. In England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide.

(n.) A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like.

(n.) See Corrundum.

(n.) The act of taking food.

(n.) The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material.

(n.) A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Cilicia in Asia Minor.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Cilicia.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Cimbri.

(n.) One of the Cimbri. See Cimbric.

(n.) The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices.

(n.) Cassia.

(n.) An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.

(n.) The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation.

(n.) Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.

(n.) A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.

(v. i.) To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

(v. i.) To make a formal accusation; to make a charge.

(v. t.) To lament; to bewail.

(n.) The act of calming, or the state of being calm.

(n.) The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.

(n.) Dissension; division; schism.

(pl. ) of Seedsman

(n.) A sower; one who sows or scatters seed.

(n.) A person who deals in seeds.

(n.) The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.

(n.) That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature.

(n.) The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.

(n.) The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; -- so used in the philosophy of Kant and his followers.

(pl. ) of Freedman

(n.) A man who has been a slave, and has been set free.

(n.) The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like.

(n.) That which is poured out, literally or figuratively.

(n.) The escape of a fluid out of its natural vessel, either by rupture of the vessel, or by exudation through its walls. It may pass into the substance of an organ, or issue upon a free surface.

(n.) The liquid escaping or exuded.

(n.) Act or process of egesting; a voiding.

(a.) Pertaining to Egypt, in Africa.

(n.) A native, or one of the people, of Egypt; also, the Egyptian language.

(n.) A gypsy.

(a.) Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.

(n.) The number greater by a unit than seventeen; eighteen units or objects.

(n.) A symbol denoting eighteen units, as 18 or xviii.

(pl. ) of Freshman

(n.) novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university.

(n.) The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.

(n.) The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions.

(n.) The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.

(n.) The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium.

(n.) The act of breaking up or pulverizing.

(v. t.) To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.

(a.) The act of choosing; choice; selection.

(a.) The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.

(a.) Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.

(a.) Discriminating choice; discernment.

(a.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism.

(a.) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.

(a.) Those who are elected.

(n.) The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion for him to move, to-day.

(n.) Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum.

(n.) An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.

(a.) Pertaining to Hegelianism.

(n.) A follower of Hegel.

(v. t.) To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

(v. t.) To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint.

(a.) Born in or of hell.

(pl. ) of Helmsman

(n.) The man at the helm; a steersman.

(n.) A reddish brown or violet crystalline substance, C16H12O6, got from hematoxylin by partial oxidation, and regarded as analogous to the phthaleins.

(n.) Alt. of Paraffine

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Ophiurioidea.

(n.) One of the Ophiurioidea.

(n.) The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters.

(n.) Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity, or operations.

(n.) Literal or etymological signification.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Pegasus, or, figuratively, to poetry.

(n.) A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle.

(n.) Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit.

(n.) A scalion.

(n.) A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen.

(n.) A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood.

(n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

(n.) A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector.

(v. t.) To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize.

(n.) An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.

(n.) A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service.

(n.) Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race which in early times occupied Eastern Europe.

(n.) The language of the Scythians.

(a.) Born of the sea; produced by the sea.

(a.) Born at sea.

(pl. ) of Coachman

(n.) A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.

(n.) A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean (Dutes auriga); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin.

(n.) Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling.

(n.) See Chawdron.

(n.) Entrails.

(n.) The hollow at the flexure of the arm.

(a.) Cherubic; angelic.

(n.) A cherub.

(pl. ) of Chessman

(n.) A piece used in the game of chess.

(n.) The act or process of coercing.

(n.) The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion.

(pl. ) of Child

(n.) pl. of Child.

(n.) The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family.

(n.) A surname.

(n.) The act or state of sticking together; close union.

(n.) That from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces.

(n.) Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas.

(n.) The act or process of straining or filtering.

(n.) The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.

(pl. ) of Chinaman

(n.) A native of China; a Chinese.

(n.) See Calumbin.

(n.) The typical genus of ophidioid fishes. [Written also Ophidium.] See Illust. under Ophidioid.

(n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.

(n.) The act of pacifying; a peacemaking.

(v. t. & i.) To burn too much; to be overzealous.

(a.) Terminating a disease; indicating the end of a disease.

(n.) The knapweed (Centaurea nigra).

(n.) See Trinitarian.

(n.) A small European shrub (Daphne Mezereum), whose acrid bark is used in medicine.

(n.) A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar.

(n.) A finical fellow, or macaroni.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.

(n.) A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York.

(n.) The clergy or the people of a diocese.

(a.) Alt. of Dioecious

(n.) See Parrilin.

(n.) An extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers. See Mach/rodus.

(n.) A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood; -- called also dracin.

(n.) An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.

(n.) An insect of the order Diptera.

(v. t.) To make smooth.

(n.) Snuff.

(v. t.) To deprive of ornaments.

(n.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.

(n.) See Dragoman.

(n.) A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.

(pl. ) of Stallman

(n.) One who keeps a stall for the sale of merchandise, especially books.

(n.) The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.

(n.) The act of solving, or the state of being solved; the disentanglement of any intricate problem or difficult question; explanation; clearing up; -- used especially in mathematics, either of the process of solving an equation or problem, or the result of the process.

(n.) The state of being dissolved or disintegrated; resolution; disintegration.

(n.) The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption.

(n.) release; deliverance; discharge.

(n.) The termination of a disease; resolution.

(n.) A crisis.

(n.) A liquid medicine or preparation (usually aqueous) in which the solid ingredients are wholly soluble.

(adv.) At some indefinite time.

(n.) In the Greek tragedy, a song of the chorus, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics.

(n.) The act of putting to sleep, or the state of being put to sleep; sleep.

(n.) A substance found in madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.

(n.) Act of returning; return.

(n.) One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense.

(v. t.) To assassinate.

(n.) One of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland.

(n.) One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans.

(pl. ) of Raftsman

(n.) A man engaged in rafting.

(n.) Analogue.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants.

(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria.

(n.) The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto-mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures.

(a.) Pertaining to the genus Astraea or the family Astraeidae.

(n.) A coral of the family Astraeidae; a star coral.

(n.) A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root.

(n.) An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Asturias in Spain.

(n.) A native of Asturias.

(n.) A small dam to prevent free passage of water in an adit or level.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Athens, the metropolis of Greece.

(n.) A native or citizen of Athens.

(n.) See Barbican.

(n.) Alt. of Barbacan

(n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own.

(n.) An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.

(n.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

(n.) The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.

(n.) See Yataghan.

(n.) A young bird.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Biscay in Spain.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Biscay.

(n.) A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.

(n.) A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.

(n.) A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

(n.) The act of hearing or listening; hearing.

(n.) Of or pertaining to Augustus Caesar or to his times.

(n.) Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg.

(a.) Relating to a hall.

(n.) At Oxford, England, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian.

(n.) See Bluefin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the aurelia.

(n.) An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist.

(n.) A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses.

(a.) Italian.

(a.) Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) /atavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland.

(a.) Of or pertaining to papyrus, or to paper; papyraceous.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the patriarch Noah, or to his time.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Algeria.

(n.) A native of Algeria.

(n.) One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.

(n.) A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds.

(n.) Same as Cacodylic acid.

(n.) A spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's fuming liquid.

(n.) The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an aquarium.

(n.) One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.

(n.) Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings.

(a.) Alt. of Aramean

(n.) The act of dashing against, or striking upon.

(a.) Alt. of Arcadic

(a.) Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history.

(n.) The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of life, and an Eozoic age, including the earliest forms of life.

(n.) A figurative or symbolical reference.

(n.) A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint.

(n.) Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.

(n.) An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.

(n.) Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium.

(n.) An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.

(n.) A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.).

(n.) A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds; -- called also quartern loaf.

(n.) See 2d Quarteron.

(n.) A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.

(a.) Pertaining to Alsatia.

(n.) An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London.

(a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.

(n.) An alloy of nickel with copper and zinc; German silver.

(n.) A white fibrous mineral frequently found on the walls of mines and quarries, chiefly hydrous sulphate of alumina; -- also called feather alum, and hair salt.

(n.) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

(n.) An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.

(v. t.) To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.

(n.) An obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle.

(n.) An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback.

(n.) A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.

(a.) Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the United States.

(n.) A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States.

(n.) The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

(n.) Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question.

(n.) Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture.

(n.) That which is asked; inquiry; interrogatory; query.

(n.) Hence, a subject of investigation, examination, or debate; theme of inquiry; matter to be inquired into; as, a delicate or doubtful question.

(n.) Talk; conversation; speech; speech.

(n.) To ask questions; to inquire.

(n.) To argue; to converse; to dispute.

(v. t.) To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.

(v. t.) To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query.

(v. t.) To raise a question about; to call in question; to make objection to.

(v. t.) To talk to; to converse with.

(pl. ) of Questman

(n.) One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters, esp. of abuses of weights and measures.

(n.) A churchwarden's assistant; a sidesman.

(n.) A collector of parish rents.

(n.) A compound radical, NH2, not yet obtained in a separate state, which may be regarded as ammonia from the molecule of which one of its hydrogen atoms has been removed; -- called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido.

(n.) Deprivation; loss.

(n.) A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.

(n.) An amorphous bitter glucoside derived from cinchona and other barks. Called also quinova bitter, and quinova.

(n.) An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Armenia.

(n.) A native or one of the people of Armenia; also, the language of the Armenians.

(n.) An adherent of the Armenian Church, an organization similar in some doctrines and practices to the Greek Church, in others to the Roman Catholic.

(a.) Alternately answering.

(n.) One of the Amoebea.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Arminius of his followers, or to their doctrines. See note under Arminian, n.

(n.) One who holds the tenets of Arminius, a Dutch divine (b. 1560, d. 1609).

(n.) Alt. of Armozine

(n.) An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium.

(n.) A Malayan fruit produced by the tree Nephelium lappaceum, and closely related to the litchi nut. It is bright red, oval in shape, covered with coarse hairs (whence the name), and contains a pleasant acid pulp. Called also ramboostan.

(n.) A mixture of cheese, eggs, etc., formed in a mold, or served on bread.

(n.) A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome.

(n.) The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants.

(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Austria.

(n.) The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Bavaria.

(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria.

(n.) Alt. of Bedesman

(n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.

(n.) A turning away.

(n.) Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance.

(n.) The object of dislike or repugnance.

(n.) The art or science of flying.

(n.) The skin of a bear.

(n.) A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats.

(n.) A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.

(n.) A tearing asunder; a forcible separation.

(n.) A fragment torn off.

(n.) The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner.

(n.) A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

(n.) One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.

(n.) The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum).

(n.) Same as Beadsman.

(p. p.) of Befall

() of Beget

() p. p. of Beget.

(n.) A boatman.

(n.) A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.

(p. p.) of Behold

(p. a.) Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia.

(n.) A native of Bactria.

(n.) A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Boeotia; hence, stupid; dull; obtuse.

(n.) A native of Boeotia; also, one who is dull and ignorant.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2.

(n.) A carrying or taking away; removal.

(n.) Extirpation.

(n.) Wearing away; superficial waste.

(n.) Of or pertaining to a social gypsy or "Bohemian" (see Bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy.

(n.) A native of Bohemia.

(n.) The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family.

(n.) A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Bolivia.

(n.) A native of Bolivia.

(n.) See Benzoin.

(n.) A kind of upper coat for men.

(v. t.) To fasten again.

(n.) One of the Cabiri.

(a.) Same as Cabiric.

(n.) A colorless crystalline substance of the phenol series, obtained by melting certain resins, as galbanum, asafetida, etc., with caustic potash. It is also produced artificially and used in making certain dyestuffs, as phthalein, fluorescein, and eosin.

(a.) Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand.

(v. t.) To summon again.

(n.) A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones.

(n.) A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology.

(n.) A native of Cambria or Wales.

(n.) The Cambrian formation.

(n.) See Chaceleon.

(n.) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.

(n.) A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field.

(n.) Political operations preceding an election; a canvass.

(n.) The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.

(v. i.) To serve in a campaign.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Canada.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Canada.

(n.) The act of revising; reexamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.

(n.) That which is made by revising.

(n.) One skilled in the civil law.

(n.) A student of the civil law at a university or college.

(n.) One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical.

(n.) A poisonous resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica). The narcotic effects of hasheesh are due to this resin.

(n.) A small can or drinking vessel.

(n.) One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe.

(a.) Norwegian.

(v. t.) To deprive of a crown.

(v. t.) To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal.

(pl. ) of Bondsman

(n.) A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman.

(n.) A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another.

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(n.) A little boot, legging, or gaiter.

(n.) A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout.

() p. p. of Bestrew.

(v. i.) To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.

(n.) A low fellow or scoundrel; a beggar.

(n.) A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.

(n.) See Brahman.

(a.) Alt. of Bothnic

(a.) Purchased; not obtained or produced at home.

(n.) A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.

(n.) An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.

(n.) The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.

(pl. ) of Brakeman

(n.) A man in charge of a brake or brakes.

(n.) The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.

(n.) The large white-heart cherry.

(n.) New or repeated melting, as of metals.

(n.) Restoration.

(a.) Pertaining to regalia; pertaining to the royal insignia or prerogatives.

(pl. ) of Ranchman

(n.) An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman.

(n.) One of a proposed class of flowering plants growning on the roots of other plants and destitute of green foliage.

(pl. ) of Rifleman

(n.) A soldier armed with a rifle.

(n.) A gay, lively dance for one couple, -- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France.

(n.) The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.

(n.) The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

(n.) The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant.

(n.) Reference; respect; regard.

(n.) Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.

(n.) A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.

(n.) The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation.

(n.) The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun.

(n.) Alt. of Shoeing-horn

(a.) Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.

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(n.) The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.

(n.) An object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock.

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(v. t.) To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.

(v. t.) To rend; to tear.

(v. t.) To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Siberia, a region comprising all northern Asia and belonging to Russia; as, a Siberian winter.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Siberia.

(v. t.) To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels.

(v. i.) To levy a distress.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Sicily.

(n.) The termination of union; separation; disjunction; as, the disunion of the body and the soul.

(n.) A breach of concord and its effect; alienation.

(n.) The termination or disruption of the union of the States forming the United States.

(pl. ) of Sidesman

(n.) A party man; a partisan.

(n.) An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.

(n.) The act of making rich; enrichment.

(n.) An end or ending.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Silesia.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Silesia.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the country of the ancient Silures; -- a term applied to the earliest of the Paleozoic eras, and also to the strata of the era, because most plainly developed in that country.

(n.) The Silurian age.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman, Cato the Censor; severe; inflexible.

(a.) To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.

(a.) To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to.

(a.) To improve or relieve by dispelling gloom or removing that which obscures and darkens; to shed light upon; to make cheerful; as, to brighten one's prospects.

(a.) To make acute or witty; to enliven.

(v. i.) To grow bright, or more bright; to become less dark or gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful.

(n.) A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot.

(n.) Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek.

(n.) Alt. of Cavezon

(a.) Having hollow horns.

(n.) The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.

(n.) A buskin or half-boot.

(v. t.) To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.

(v. t.) To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.

(v. t.) To overpower; to conquer.

(v. t.) Worn out or subdued by toil; worn out so as to be trite.

(a.) Relating to the foot, or to a metrical foot; pedal.

(n.) One of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken.

(v. t.) To confront, or subdue, with greater scorn.

(n.) The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.

(v. t.) To think too highly or arrogantly; to regard one's own thinking or conclusions too highly; hence, to egotistic, arrogant, or rash, in opinion; to think conceitedly; to presume.

(n.) Meal-taking; dining or supping.

(n.) The man who manages the movable scenes in a theater.

(n.) Scheelium.

(n.) A scholium.

(pl. ) of Brother

(pl. ) of Brother

(a.) Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below.

(n.) A glucoside extracted from squill (Scilla) as a light porous substance.

(n.) The act of dividing with an instrument having a sharp edge.

(n.) A yellow gelatinous or crystalline substance found in broom (Cytisus scoparius) accompanying sparteine.

(n.) The head.

(n.) A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase, obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid.

(n.) A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order Scorpiones, having a suctorial mouth, large claw-bearing palpi, and a caudal sting.

(n.) The pine or gray lizard (Sceloporus undulatus).

(n.) The scorpene.

(n.) A painful scourge.

(n.) A sign and constellation. See Scorpio.

(n.) An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.

(n.) See Scotchman.

(a.) Sky-colored; blue; azure.

(a.) Alt. of Cesarian

(a.) Same as Caesarean, Caesarian.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Bryozoa.

(n.) One of the Bryozoa.

(n.) The skin of a buck.

(n.) A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.

(n.) A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.

(n.) Breeches made of buckskin.

(n.) One of the Cetacea.

(n.) A white substance extracted from the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetraria Islandica). It consists of several ingredients, among which is cetraric acid, a white, crystalline, bitter substance.

(n.) A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public.

(n.) Any public notice or announcement, especially of news recently received.

(n.) A periodical publication, especially one containing the proceeding of a society.

(pl. ) of Chairman

(n.) The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.

(n.) One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Chaldea.

(n.) A learned man, esp. an astrologer; -- so called among the Eastern nations, because astrology and the kindred arts were much cultivated by the Chaldeans.

(n.) Nestorian.

(n.) An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke.

(n.) The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse.

(v. t.) To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.

(n.) The fore part of a horse's head.

(pl. ) of Norseman

(n.) One of the ancient Scandinavians; a Northman.

(n.) One of the Ophidia; a snake or serpent.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Ophidia; belonging to serpents.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west.

(a.) In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind.

(pl. ) of Northman

(n.) One of the inhabitants of the north of Europe; esp., one of the ancient Scandinavians; a Norseman.

(n.) One of the followers of Simon Magus; also, an adherent of certain heretical sects in the early Christian church.

(n.) A glucoside found in the seeds of white mustard (Brassica alba, formerly Sinapis alba), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

(n.) A glucoside found in the seeds of black mustard (Brassica nigra, formerly Sinapis nigra) It resembles sinalbin, and consists of a potassium salt of myronic acid.

(n.) A dweller by the sea.

(n.) The myristate of glycerin, -- found as a vegetable fat in nutmeg butter, etc.

(n.) One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war.

(n.) A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.

(n.) A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow.

(v. i.) To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.

(n.) The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

(n.) The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

(n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

(n.) The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.

(a.) Native; indigenous; not foreign.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the home or family.

(pl. ) of Indiaman

(n.) A large vessel in the India trade.

(a.) Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain.

(a.) Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse.

(n.) Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.

(n.) An unpolished, rustic person.

(n.) Want of activity or exertion; inertness; quietude.

(pl. ) of Tacksman

(n.) One who holds a tack or lease from another; a tenant, or lessee.

(n.) A color mixed of white, and red, or a gray violet.

(n.) A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.

(n.) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.

(n.) A football field.

(n.) Adaptation.

(n.) The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the Pacific Ocean.

(n.) A native inhabitant of Tahiti.

(a.) See Gridelin.

(n.) A small African monkey (Cercopithecus, / Miopithecus, talapoin) -- called also melarhine.

(n.) A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.

(n.) A downfall; an humiliation.

(pl. ) of Talesman

(n.) A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded.

(n.) A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.

(n.) Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases.

(a.) Stillborn.

(n.) A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire.

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(pl. ) of Tallyman

(n.) One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.

(n.) One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally trade.

(a. & n.) Tamil.

(n.) A superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount.

(n. & v.) See Toboggan.

(v. t.) One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.

(v. t.) One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs.

(a.) Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care.

(n.) The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.

(n.) A species of soft flannel, thick and warm.

(n.) A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses.

(n.) A plant of the genus Artemisa (A. dracunculus), much used in France for flavoring vinegar.

(n.) Capacity; shrewdness; common sense.

(n.) The art of preparing colors.

(n.) Megilp.

(v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.

(v. t.) To make tense, or tight; to tighten.

(v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Ephesus, an ancient city of Ionia, in Asia Minor.

(n.) A native of Ephesus.

(n.) A jolly companion; a roisterer.

(n.) In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage.

(n.) In insects: The lateral piece behind the episternum.

(n.) A spitbox; a cuspidor.

(n.) See Omentum.

(p. p. & a.) Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.

(n.) Worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21.

(v. t.) Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock.

(p. p.) of Stride

(n.) A making equal; equal division; equality; equilibrium.

(n.) An expression of the condition of equality between two algebraic quantities or sets of quantities, the sign = being placed between them; as, a binomial equation; a quadratic equation; an algebraic equation; a transcendental equation; an exponential equation; a logarithmic equation; a differential equation, etc.

(n.) A quantity to be applied in computing the mean place or other element of a celestial body; that is, any one of the several quantities to be added to, or taken from, its position as calculated on the hypothesis of a mean uniform motion, in order to find its true position as resulting from its actual and unequal motion.

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(n.) The act of becoming surety for another.

(n.) An act or engagement on behalf of a state, by an agent not specially authorized for the purpose, or by one who exceeds the limits of authority.

(n.) A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.

(n.) One of the followers of Thomas Erastus, a German physician and theologian of the 16th century. He held that the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an Erastian is one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of the State.

(n.) The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.

(n.) The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes.

(n.) State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.

(n.) Anything erected; a building of any kind.

(n.) The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue.

(n.) A snatching away.

(n.) A glucoside found in the bearberry (and others of the Ericaceae), and extracted as a bitter, yellow, amorphous mass.

(n.) A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values.

(n.) The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion.

(n.) That which bursts forth.

(n.) A violent exclamation; ejaculation.

(n.) The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc.

(n.) Alt. of Erythrine

(n.) The alderman or chief officer of an ancient guild.

(a.) Seldom seen.

(n.) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.

(n.) Alt. of Cotillion

(n.) A man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women.

(n.) A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy.

(n.) The concrete essence of the tonka bean, the fruit of Dipterix (formerly Coumarouna) odorata and consisting essentially of coumarin proper, which is a white crystalline substance, C9H6O2, of vanilla-like odor, regarded as an anhydride of coumaric acid, and used in flavoring. Coumarin in also made artificially.

(n.) A half sound; a low tone.

(n.) See Cockswain.

(n.) The houseleek.

(a.) In european geology, a name given to the middle division of the Upper Cretaceous formation.

(pl. ) of Cragsman

(n.) One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.

(n.) A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.

(n.) One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks.

(a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Socinus, or the Socinians.

(n.) One of the followers of Socinus; a believer in Socinianism.

(n.) An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron.

(n.) A red dyestuff extracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; -- called also Spanish red, China lake, and carthamin.

(n.) An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye.

(pl. ) of Clansman

(n.) One belonging to the same clan with another.

(n.) The outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhuman and overruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the conduct of life; a system of faith and worship; a manifestation of piety; as, ethical religions; monotheistic religions; natural religion; revealed religion; the religion of the Jews; the religion of idol worshipers.

(n.) Specifically, conformity in faith and life to the precepts inculcated in the Bible, respecting the conduct of life and duty toward God and man; the Christian faith and practice.

(n.) A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion.

(n.) Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined rule of conduct.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the bank of a river; as, riparian rights.

(n.) The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.

(n.) The water used in cleansing.

(n.) A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

(n.) That which is washed off.

(n.) Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.

(n.) The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame.

(n.) An action induced by vital resistance to some other action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock.

(n.) The force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite direction.

(a.) Alt. of Roboreous

(n.) Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction.

(n.) The demand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree.

(n.) Litany; supplication.

(n.) The act of removing; removal.

(n.) The state of being remote; remoteness.

(v. t.) To assign back or again; to transfer back what has been assigned.

(v. t.) To attain again.

(n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.

(n.) The immature product of an untimely birth.

(n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.

(n.) Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion.

(n.) The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.

(n.) The substance rubbed off.

(n.) A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds.

(v. t.) To obtain again.

(v. t.) To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective.

(n.) The act of cutting off.

(n.) A cultivator of roses.

(n.) A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention.

(n.) The writ by which goods and chattels are replevied.

(v. t.) To replevy.

(n.) The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution.

(n.) Any return or succesion in a series.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.

(n.) A nomad.

(n.) That which is omitted or is left undone.

(n.) Adverse action of will; unwillingness; -- opposed to volition.

(n.) A leguminous plant (Onobrychis sativa) cultivated for fodder.

(n.) A kind of tick trefoil (Desmodium Canadense).

(pl. ) of Classman

(n.) A member of a class; a classmate.

(n.) A candidate for graduation in arts who is placed in an honor class, as opposed to a passman, who is not classified.

(n.) A red liquid or soft resin extracted from various species of capsicum.

(pl. ) of Salesman

(n.) One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

(n.) The harpsichord.

(n.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis.

(n.) A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.

(n.) A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.

(n.) Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine.), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella.

(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.

(n.) The velella; -- called also saleeman.

(n.) Alt. of Caragheen

(n.) Chopped meat, bread, etc., used to stuff legs of veal or other joints; stuffing; farce.

(n.) The act of healing or curing.

(n.) Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; establishment or furtherance of anything by giving authority to it; confirmation; approbation.

(n.) Anything done or said to enforce the will, law, or authority of another; as, legal sanctions.

(v. t.) To give sanction to; to ratify; to confirm; to approve.

(a.) Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.

(n.) A cargo.

(n.) A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys.

(n.) A tune adapted to be played by musical bells.

(n.) Santalic acid. See Santalic.

(n.) A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass.

(n.) A crystalline nitrogenous substance, formed in the decomposition of creatin (one of the constituents of muscle tissue). Chemically, it is methyl glycocoll.

(n.) Alt. of Sarrasine

(n.) Alt. of Sassoline

(n.) A substance contained in both Brazil wood and Sapan wood, from which it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies.

(a.) Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes.

(n.) An American bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird.

(n.) pl. of Brother.

(n.) A brevipennate bird.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.

(n.) Any one of several kinds of orchids.

(n.) See Bridesmaid, Bridesman.

(n.) A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.

(n.) A white crystalline substance obtained from castoreum.

(n.) One of the tannic acids, extracted from catechu as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, and catechuin.

(a.) Alt. of Olympic

(n.) The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty.

(n.) An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book.

(n.) A vender of paints, etc.

(n.) A white, crystalline, bitter substance. See Calumbin.

(n.) Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square.

(n.) A body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, and averging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men.

(n.) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer; as, the North Atlantic Squadron.

(n.) See Crimson.

(a.) Pertaining to, or bordering on, the river Danube.

(a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Creoles.

(n. ) A Creole.

(v. t.) Alt. of Darrain

(n.) The act of optating; a wish.

(n.) A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard hemp (Datisca cannabina).

(a.) One skilled in optics.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Croatia.

(n.) A Croat.

(n.) A dyestuff, obtained from the Chinese crocin, which produces a brilliant yellow.

(n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides.

(n.) Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.

(n.) The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion.

(n.) An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause; as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the Supreme Court.

(n.) The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision.

(n.) The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin.

(n.) The act of lying down; a reclining.

(n.) A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers.

(n.) The act of yielding; surrender.

(n.) A long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18-pounder with serpent-shaped handles.

(a.) Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there.

(n.) Cure; healing.

(n.) The coloring principle of turmeric, or curcuma root, extracted as an orange yellow crystalline substance, C14H14O4, with a green fluorescence.

(n.) One who is half squire and half farmer; -- used humorously.

(n.) The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.

(pl. ) of Dutchman

(n.) A native, or one of the people, of Holland.

(pl. ) of Staffman

(n.) A workman employed in silk throwing.

(a.) Pertaining to, or taught by, Stahl, a German physician and chemist of the 17th century; as, the Stahlian theory of phlogiston.

(n.) A believer in, or advocate of, Stahlism.

(n.) A resinous substance formed in the decomposition of cholic acid of bile; -- so called because it is difficult to solve.

(p. p.) Provided; in case that; on condition that.

(n.) Anything added; increase; augmentation; as, a piazza is an addition to a building.

(n.) That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers.

(n.) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.

(n.) A title annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; as, John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent.; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York; a mark of distinction; a title.

(n.) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement.

(n.) One of a class of plants, so called by Lindley, because the ovules are fertilized by direct contact of the pollen. Same as Gymnosperm.

(n.) The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution.

(n.) One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.

(n.) The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue.

(n.) The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost.

(n.) Tax; sum imposed.

(n.) Charge; accusation.

(n.) One of a family of beetles (Taxicornes) whose antennae are largest at the tip. Also used adjectively.

(pl. ) of Fellah

(n.) Same as Hematin.

(n.) A large South American lizard (Tejus teguexin). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied species Tejus rufescens is called red teguexin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the gadflies.

(n.) A gadfly.

(pl. ) of Nobleman

(n.) One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Horace, the Latin poet, or resembling his style.

(n.) The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.

(n.) Cauterization.

(pl. ) of Townsman

(n.) An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another.

(n.) A selectman, in New England. See Selectman.

(n.) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

(pl. ) of Horseman

(n.) A rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man.

(n.) A mounted soldier; a cavalryman.

(n.) A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly.

(n.) A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus).

(a.) Belonging to a garden.

(n.) The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle.

(n.) Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug.

(n.) Attraction; a drawing toward.

(n.) The adhesive friction of a wheel on a rail, a rope on a pulley, or the like.

(v. t.) The act of infusing, pouring in, or instilling; instillation; as, the infusion of good principles into the mind; the infusion of ardor or zeal.

(v. t.) That which is infused; suggestion; inspiration.

(v. t.) The act of plunging or dipping into a fluid; immersion.

(v. t.) The act or process of steeping or soaking any substance in water in order to extract its virtues.

(v. t.) The liquid extract obtained by this process.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world.

(n.) A scolding; a hand, tedious reproof.

(n.) The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain.

(n.) See Lantern.

(n.) A man who keeps ward; a guard.

() Forsaken by a lass.

(n.) The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See Illust. in Appendix.

(n.) The act or art of hunting, or the state of being hunted.

(pl. ) of Watchman

(n.) One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.

(n.) Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.

(a.) Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Venice.

(pl. ) of Waterman

(n.) A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.

(n.) An attendant on cab stands, etc., who supplies water to the horses.

(n.) A water demon.

(n.) A washing or cleansing.

(n.) Want of reason; unreasonableness; absurdity.

(v. t.) To undo, disprove, or refute by reasoning.

(v. t.) To relieve from sadness; to cheer.

(v. t.) To make unseasoned; to deprive of seasoning.

(v. t.) To strike unseasonably; to affect disagreeably or unfavorably.

(a.) Not shaped; shapeless; misshapen; deformed; ugly.

(n.) A complex nitrogenous radical, C8H4NO2, regarded as the essential residue of a series of compounds, related to isatin, which easily pass by reduction to indigo blue.

(v. t.) To relieve from a strain; to relax.

(a.) Not washed.

(n.) One of the subdivisions into which the Upper Cretaceous formation of Europe is divided.

(a.) Not revenged; unavenged.

(a.) Not yielded.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an isthmus, especially to the Isthmus of Corinth, in Greece.

(a.) Alt. of Jacobian

(a.) Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Jamaica.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Jamaica.

(v. t.) To poison; to imbitter; to impair.

(n.) A yellow pigment identical with hydrobilirubin, abundant in the highly colored urine of fever, and also present in normal urine. See Urochrome.

(n.) A median ossification back of the lophosteon in the sternum of some birds.

(n.) Indigo red, a product of the decomposition, or oxidation, of indican. It is sometimes found in the sediment of pathological urines. It is soluble in ether or alcohol, giving the solution a beautiful red color. Also called indigrubin.

(n.) The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.

(n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.

(n.) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess.

(n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation.

(n.) The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant.

(v. t.) To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.

(v. t.) To limit, restrain, or confine in any way.

(n.) A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve.

(n.) A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion.

(n.) A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; -- called also weeping sinew.

(n.) A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating.

(n.) The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.

(n.) A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages.

(n.) A name given generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and fabled warriors.

(n.) An extract of madder by sulphuric acid. It consists essentially of alizarin.

(n.) A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.

(n.) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security.

(v. t.) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town.

(v. t.) To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.

(n.) Any species of Sirenia.

(n.) A little devil; a devilet.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England; as, the Devonian rocks, period, or system.

(n.) The Devonian age or formation.

(n.) The act of devoting; consecration.

(n.) The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness.

(n.) Act of devotedness or devoutness; manifestation of strong attachment; act of worship; prayer.

(n.) Disposal; power of disposal.

(n.) A thing consecrated; an object of devotion.

(n.) The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

(n.) The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.

(n.) A very thin or lean person.

(n.) The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.

(n.) The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.

(n.) The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

(n.) That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

(n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.

(n.) Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.

(n.) Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.

(n.) Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.

(n.) The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.

(n.) The separation of a genus into its constituent species.

(n.) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.

(n.) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion.

(n.) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.

(n.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.

(n.) A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.

(n.) The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.

(n.) A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.

(n.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale.

(n.) Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony.

(n.) The entire compass of tones.

(n.) A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason.

(n.) One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like.

(n.) A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.

(a.) Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny.

(v. t.) To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.

(n.) A dictation or dictate.

(v. t.) To slight.

(n.) Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.

(n.) Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency.

(n.) That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.

(n.) A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3.

(n.) The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.

(n.) That which is given as a present; that which is transferred to another gratuitously; a gift.

(n.) The act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another, without any consideration, as a free gift.

(n.) A judge; an umpire.

(n.) The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.

(n.) Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.

(a.) Alt. of Digynous

(n.) A figure with two sides or surfaces.

(n.) Delay.

(n.) The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.

(n.) The act of diluting, or the state of being diluted.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin.

(a.) A Spanish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See Doblon in Sup.

(n.) A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. It is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life (hence the name azote still used by French chemists); but it forms many important compounds, as ammonia, nitric acid, the cyanides, etc, and is a constituent of all organized living tissues, animal or vegetable. Symbol N. Atomic weight 14. It was formerly regarded as a permanent noncondensible gas, but was liquefied in 1877 by Cailletet of Paris, and Pictet of Geneva.

(a.) Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months.

(n.) A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster.

(n.) An unorganized ferment or enzyme present in pancreatic juice. It decomposes neutral fats into glycerin and fatty acids.

(n.) A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive-green, shaded with black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and star lizard.

(a.) Sotadic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the south; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south.

(n.) A Southerner.

(n.) An inhabitant of the more southern part of a country; formerly, a name given in Scotland to any Englishman.

(n.) The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.

(n.) A sword, especially a broadsword, formerly used both to cut and thrust.

(n.) A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule.

() of Engrave

(v. t.) To harden; to embolden.

(n.) A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.

(pl. ) of Spearman

(n.) One who is armed with a spear.

(n.) A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.

(n.) A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as, a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art.

(n.) One of the Entozoa.

(n.) A theater.

(pl. ) of Stockman

(n.) A herdsman; a ranchman; one owning, or having charge of, herds of live stock.

(n.) One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins

(n.) The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it.

(n.) Alt. of Shaftment

(v. t.) To chagrin.

(n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes.

(n.) The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts.

(a.) Alt. of Shagreened

(n.) A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff.

(n.) A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. The name is also applied to the univalent radical, CN (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized.

(n.) A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.

(n.) A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europaeum.

(n.) Conveyance.

(n.) Accusation by an informer.

(a.) Pertaining to Cyrene, in Africa; Cyrenaic.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Cyrene.

(n.) One of a school of philosophers, established at Cyrene by Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the same as those of the Epicureans.

(n.) Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction.

(n.) One whose occupation is to shear cloth.

(n.) A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool.

(pl. ) of Dairyman

(n.) A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.

(pl. ) of Dalesman

(n.) One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc.

(a.) Delphic.

(n.) The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.

(n.) The state of being deluded or misled.

(n.) That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.

(n.) A sword of Damask steel.

(n.) A kind of modified damask or brocade.

(n.) The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia Myxa, and C. latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases.

(n.) A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork.

(a.) Relating to, or having the nature of, a demon.

(v. t.) To make unlike; to disguise.

(v. t.) To put at a distance; to remove.

(n.) Punishment.

(n.) Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution.

(n.) Information; indication; notice; advice.

(n.) A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer.

(n.) An order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law.

(n.) The number greater than eighteen by a unit; the sum of ten and nine; nineteen units or objects.

(n.) A symbol for nineteen units, as 19 or xix.

(n.) The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying.

(a.) Of or pertaining to trap; being of the nature of trap.

(a.) Pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle.

(n.) A tasteless, yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from the gentian; -- called also gentianin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Georgia, in Asia, or to Georgia, one of the United States.

(a.) Of or relating to the reigns of the four Georges, kings of Great Britan; as, the Georgian era.

(n.) A native of, or dweller in, Georgia.

(n.) Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use.

(pl. ) of Fugleman

(n.) A soldier especially expert and well drilled, who takes his place in front of a military company, as a guide for the others in their exercises; a file leader. He originally stood in front of the right wing.

(n.) Hence, one who leads the way.

(v. t.) To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.

(v. t.) To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate.

(v. t.) To give boldness or courage to; to encourage.

(n.) The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.

(n.) The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.

(n.) The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.

(n.) The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.

(n.) A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.

(v. i.) Alt. of Functionate

(n.) The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties.

(n.) The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from behind the moon.

(n.) The voiding of urine.

(n.) What is voided by the urinary passages; urine.

(n.) A colorless, oily substance, C4H4O, obtained by distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.; -- called also tetraphenol.

(n.) The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes.

(n.) That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood.

(v. t.) To poison; to impoison.

(n.) Poison.

(v. t.) See Imprison.

(n.) The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist.

(a.) Empyreal.

(n.) Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

(n.) A species of counterpoint with a drone bass.

(n.) A succession of chords of the sixth.

(n.) A monotonous refrain.

(n.) Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.

(n.) An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent.

(n.) A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron).

(n.) An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose.

(n.) Alt. of Encheason

(v. t.) To put in a coffin.

(v. t.) To render cold.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Galicia, in Spain, or to Galicia, the kingdom of Austrian Poland.

(n.) A native of Galicia in Spain; -- called also Gallegan.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Galileo; as, the Galilean telescope. See Telescope.

(a.) Of or relating to Galilee.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine under the Romans.

(n.) One of the party among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans; -- called also Gaulonite.

(n.) A Christian in general; -- used as a term of reproach by Mohammedans and Pagans.

(n.) Alt. of Gallego

(n.) Same as Gambison.

(n.) A kind of twilled linen cloth for lining.

(pl. ) of Nightman

(n.) One whose business is emptying privies by night.

(a.) Alt. of Monecious

(n.) See Mangcorn.

(n.) Tobacco.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, tobacco.

(a.) Occupying the third post or rank.

() p. p. of Strike.

(n.) Any fabric having a thick soft shag, like the fur of a mole; esp., a kind of strong twilled fustian.

(n.) Change; alteration, either in form or qualities.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Valeriana. The root of the officinal valerian (V. officinalis) has a strong smell, and is much used in medicine as an antispasmodic.

(pl. ) of Landsman

(n.) One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.

(n.) A sailor on his first voyage.

(n.) A white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. It is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol.

(n.) A statesman; a politician.

(n.) The act of loosening or slackening, or the state of being loosened or slackened.

(n.) A glucoside extracted from the root of a South African plant of the genus Vernonia, as a deliquescent powder, and used as a mild heart tonic.

(n.) Same as Versemonger.

(pl. ) of Leadsman

(n.) The man who heaves the lead.

(n.) The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.

(v. t.) To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance.

(a.) Worn out; wasted; used up.

(a.) Of or relating to ancient Etruria, in Italy.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria.

(n.) Of or relating to Etruria.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Etruria.

(pl. ) of Forgeman

(n.) A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.

(p. p.) of Forgive

(a.) Made of or relating to ivory.

(n.) A good angel.

(n.) A follower of Eudoxius, patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople in the 4th century, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius.

(n.) The candlefish. [Written also oulachan, oolacan, and ulikon.] See Candlefish.

(a.) Pertaining to Euler, a German mathematician of the 18th century.

(n.) A follower of Eunomius, bishop of Cyzicus (4th century A. D.), who held that Christ was not God but a created being, having a nature different from that of the Father.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Eunomius or his doctrine.

(n.) A principle or mixture of principles derived from Euonymus atropurpureus, or spindle tree.

(n.) An instrument resembling the organ in tine and the upright piano in form. It is characterized by great strength and sweetness of tone.

(n.) A French gold coin of twenty francs, or about $3.86.

(n.) A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other.

(n.) One born of European parents in Asia.

(a.) Of European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants.

(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Europe.

(n.) A follower of Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, who was a friend and protector of Arius.

(n.) A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.

(p. p.) of Forsake

(p. p.) of Forswear

() p. p. of Forswear.

() p. p. of Fight.

() The act of carrying up or away; exaltation.

() An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1¡ 20'.

() The libration of the moon.

(n.) See Epizoon.

(n.) The act of eversing; destruction.

(n.) The state of being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium.

(n.) The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster.

(n.) Conclusive evidence; proof.

(n.) A spring of water issuing from the earth.

(n.) An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.

(n.) A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.

(n.) The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.

(a.) Four and ten more; twice seven.

(n.) The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing fourteen, as 14 or xiv.

(n.) The act of plucking out; a rooting out.

(n.) The act of drawing out or bringing into view.

(n.) The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion.

(n.) That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice.

(n.) The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.

(n.) A portion; a fragment.

(n.) One or more aliquot parts of a unit or whole number; an expression for a definite portion of a unit or magnitude.

(v. t.) To separate by means of, or to subject to, fractional distillation or crystallization; to fractionate; -- frequently used with out; as, to fraction out a certain grade of oil from pretroleum.

(n.) The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

(n.) The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.

(n.) The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument.

(a.) An English freeholder, or substantial householder.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Vesuvius, a volcano near Naples.

(a.) Vesuvianite.

(a.) Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse.

(n.) The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.

(n.) The cause of trouble or disquiet; affliction.

(n.) A harassing by process of law; a vexing or troubling, as by a malicious suit.

(n.) See Welshman.

(n.) A complex, nitrogenous phosphorized substance widely distributed through the animal body, and especially conspicuous in the brain and nerve tissue, in yolk of eggs, and in the white blood corpuscles.

(n.) A vicar.

(pl. ) of Welshman

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Wales; one of the Welsh.

(n.) A squirrel fish.

(n.) The large-mouthed black bass. See Black bass.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Wesley or Wesleyanism.

(n.) One who adopts the principles of Wesleyanism; a Methodist.

(n.) The sending forth or commissioning one person to act for another.

(n.) A legate, or envoy, and the persons associated with him in his mission; an embassy; or, in stricter usage, a diplomatic minister and his suite; a deputation.

(n.) The place of business or official residence of a diplomatic minister at a foreign court or seat of government.

(n.) A district under the jurisdiction of a legate.

(pl. ) of Whaleman

(n.) A man employed in the whale fishery.

(a.) Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridae. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder.

(n.) A corruption of Nasturtion.

(n.) A triacid alcohol, related to glycerin, and obtained from certain styryl derivatives as a yellow, gummy, amorphous substance; -- called also phenyl glycerin.

(n.) A white crystalline tasteless substance extracted from gum storax, and consisting of a salt of cinnamic acid with cinnamic alcohol.

(n.) According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.

(n.) See Olein.

(n.) A man who prepares or sells tripe.

(n.) An albuminous body, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red blood corpuscles united with haematin to form haemoglobin. It is also found in the crystalline lens of the eye, and in blood serum, and is sometimes called crystallin. In the plural the word is applied to a group of proteid substances such as vitellin, myosin, fibrinogen, etc., all insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute salt solutions.

(n.) A carbohydrate isomeric with dextrin, obtained from quitch grass (Agropyrum, formerly Triticum, repens) as a white amorphous substance.

(n.) Alt. of Glycerine

(n.) Same as Glycocoll.

(n.) A white, amorphous, tasteless substance resembling starch, soluble in water to an opalescent fluid. It is found abundantly in the liver of most animals, and in small quantity in other organs and tissues, particularly in the embryo. It is quickly changed into sugar when boiled with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, and also by the action of amylolytic ferments.

(n.) An emulsion of glycerin and the yolk of eggs, used as an ointment, as a vehicle for medicines, etc.

(n.) Act of sharpening.

(a.) Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city.

(n.) One who dwells in the suburbs.

(n.) A sweating.

(n.) An interpreter. See Dragoman.

(pl. ) of Truckman

(n.) One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.

(n.) One who drives a truck, or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks.

(n.) The skin of a goat, or leather made from it.

(a.) Made of the skin of a goat.

(n.) A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon.

(n.) A gudgeon on each side of an oscillating steam cylinder, to support it. It is usually tubular, to convey steam.

(n.) A hypothetical radical, SO4, regarded as forming the acid or negative constituent of sulphuric acid and the sulphates in electrolytic decomposition; -- so called in accordance with the binary theory of salts.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Sumatra or its inhabitants.

(n.) A native of Sumatra.

(n.) A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands.

(n.) A taking.

(n.) The major premise of a syllogism.

(n.) The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See Testudinata.

(n.) A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist.

(n.) See Morintannic.

(a.) Of or relating to the Medici, a noted Italian family; as, the Medicean Venus.

(n.) One of the Macrura.

(v. t.) To lay stones, masonry, etc., under, as the sills of a building, on which it is to rest.

(v. t.) To support by some solid foundation; to place something underneath for support.

(v. t.) To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it.

(n.) The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought.

(v. t.) To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.

(a.) Not gotten; not acquired.

(a.) Not begotten.

(n.) The act of igniting, kindling, or setting on fire.

(n.) The state of being ignited or kindled.

(a.) Resembling, or pertaining to, the iguana.

(n.) The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion.

(n.) The act of dashing or striking against.

(n.) The act of burning or branding.

(n.) The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.

(n.) A warlike or hostile entrance into the possessions or domains of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder.

(n.) The incoming or first attack of anything hurtful or pernicious; as, the invasion of a disease.

(n.) An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.

(n.) Hence: Anything agreeably fascinating and charning; enchantment; witchery; glamour.

(n.) A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.

(n.) A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils, scarfs, dresses, etc.

(n.) An unorganized ferment which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar.

(n.) Want of vision or of the power of seeing.

(n.) A proposition or device for securing peace, especially in the church.

(v. t.) See Embolden.

(pl. ) of Irishman

(n.) A man born in Ireland or of the Irish race; an Hibernian.

(v. t.) To loosen; to unloose.

(v. t.) To ravish; to deflower.

(n.) The act of laughing at another; derision.

(v. t.) To loose from pinions or manacles; to free from restraint.

(v. t.) To remove or expel poison from.

(v. t.) To take or deliver from prison.

(p. p.) or prep. Excepted; save.

(a.) Hot-headed; rash.

(n.) A rash or hot-headed person.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Jones.

(n.) A reformed prostitute.

(n.) One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.

(n.) A piece of leather stuffed or padded, worn by fencers to protect the breast.

(n.) An iron breastplate, worn under the hauberk.

(n.) Yester-evening; yesternight; last night.

(n.) A local name in parts of the Mississippi Valley for the American lotus (Nelumbo lutea).

(a.) Alt. of Megaric

(n.) One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Napier, or Naper.

(a.) Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.

(n.) An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term.

(n.) See Jeniquen.

(n.) A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles.

(a.) Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.

(n.) The owner or keeper of a herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallic; French; as, the Gallican church or clergy.

(n.) An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism.

(n.) The early part of the day, from morning to meridian, or noon.

(adv.) On this; hereon.

(n.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage.

(interj.) A form of salutation.

(n.) Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.

(n.) One of a party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee. They joined with the Pharisees against Christ.

(n.) A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.

(v. t.) To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community.

(n.) The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.

(n.) That which is produced by incising; the separation of the parts of any substance made by a cutting or pointed instrument; a cut; a gash.

(n.) Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.

(n.) A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.

(n.) An appearance as of a halo of light, surrounding the edges of dark objects in a photographic picture.

(a.) An obtaining; attainment.

(n.) The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.

(n.) Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy.

(pl. ) of Ferryman

(n.) One who maintains or attends a ferry.

(n.) Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.

(n.) The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.

(n.) Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.

(n.) The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.

(a.) Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist.

(n.) The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.

(n.) See Andrion.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and brackish waters. Many of them are valued for food.

(n.) A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America.

(n.) A grappling iron.

(n.) A tunicate.

(n.) A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc.

(n.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle.

(n.) A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of plectognath fishes belonging to Tetrodon and allied genera. Each jaw is furnished with two large, thick, beaklike, bony teeth.

(n.) The skin of a fish (dog fish, shark, etc.)

(n.) See Ichthyosis.

(n.) The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.

(n.) The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.

(n.) The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.

(n.) A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals.

(a.) Belonging to Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, or to the people of Hawaii.

(n.) A native of Hawaii.

(n.) A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed.

(n.) Hawthorn.

(n.) A player.

(n.) A kind of small reed organ; -- a portable form of the seraphine.

(n.) A music hall.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Memphis in Egypt; hence, Egyptian; as, Memphian darkness.

(n.) An American marine fish of the Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.

(a.) Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology.

(n.) A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.

(n.) A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud.

(n.) A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons.

(n.) A cask containing, sometimes 84, sometimes 120, gallons.

(n.) A puncturing, or pricking; a puncture.

(n.) The act of pressing; pressure.

(n.) An endeavor to move.

(pl. ) of Pressman

(n.) One who manages, or attends to, a press, esp. a printing press.

(n.) One who presses clothes; as, a tailor's pressman.

(n.) One of a press gang, who aids in forcing men into the naval service; also, one forced into the service.

(n.) Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.

(n.) An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch.

(a.) Base; vile; contemptible; cowardly.

(n.) See Delphin.

(n.) A light hydrocarbon oil resembling kerosene. It is obtained by distilling coal, paraffin, etc., and is used as a lubricant, illuminant, etc.

(n.) A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a polyp, or polyps.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Phrygia, or to its inhabitants.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.

(n.) A Montanist.

(n.) A colorless crystalline substance obtained by reduction from phthalein, into which it is easily converted by oxidation; hence, any one of the series of which phthalin proper is the type.

(n.) Tin extracted from the slag.

(n.) Any species of Polyzoa; one of the Polyzoa.

(n.) A polyzoon.

(n.) One of the individual zooids forming the compound organism of a polyzoan.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Picariae.

(n.) One of the Picariae.

(n.) One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.

(n.) One of a group of nitrogenous phosphorized principles, supposed by Thudichum to exist in brain tissue.

(pl. ) of Prizeman

(n.) The winner of a prize.

(a.) Next; nearest.

(n.) The state of existing, of being inherent, in something; inherence.

(n.) Any one of several species of Asiatic pheasants of the genus Ceriornis. They are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints, the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. The crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant (C. satyra), of India is one of the best-known species.

(n.) Interment; inhumation.

(n.) Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.

(n.) See Dextrin.

(n.) Alt. of Gonfanon

(n.) The ensign or standard in use by certain princes or states, such as the mediaeval republics of Italy, and in more recent times by the pope.

(n.) A name popularly given to any flag which hangs from a crosspiece or frame instead of from the staff or the mast itself.

(n.) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column.

(n.) A rare element of the chromium group found in certain minerals, as wolfram and scheelite, and isolated as a heavy steel-gray metal which is very hard and infusible. It has both acid and basic properties. When alloyed in small quantities with steel, it greatly increases its hardness. Symbol W (Wolframium). Atomic weight, 183.6. Specific gravity, 18.

(n.) Scheelite, or calcium tungstate.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and low grade (called also Altaic, Ural-Altaic, and Scythian), spoken in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and Central Asia; of pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these languages.

(n.) One of the Turanians.

(n.) A member of a tribe of Turanians inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea.

(n.) A Turcoman carpet.

(n.) Same as Turcoman.

(n.) One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc.

(n.) Alt. of Gownman

(a.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, Regnier de Graaf, a Dutch physician.

(pl. ) of Swordman

(n.) A swordsman.

(n.) A son's or daughter's son.

(n.) A proteid substance (acid albumin) formed from the albuminous matter of muscle by the action of dilute acids; -- formerly called musculin. See Acid albumin, under Albumin.

(n.) A glucoside found in the bark of the lilac (Syringa) and extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called also lilacin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the syrphus flies.

(n.) A syrphus fly.

(a.) Born out of wedlock.

(a.) Born of low parentage.

(a.) Vile; mean.

(a.) The grievance complained of; the substantial cause of the action; also, in general, the ground or essence of a complaint. Bouvier.

(n.) A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

(n.) A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10.

(a.) Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.

(v. t.) To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb.

(v. t.) To draw back toghtly, as a rein.

(v. t.) To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge.

(v. t.) To limit; to confine; to restrict.

(v. t.) To withhold; to forbear.

(pl. ) of Huntsman

(n.) One who hunts, or who practices hunting.

(n.) The person whose office it is to manage the chase or to look after the hounds.

(a.) Of or pertaining to certain non-fossiliferous rocks on the borders of Lake Huron, which are supposed to correspond in time to the latter part of the Archaean age.

(n.) Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aeration of soil, of spawn, etc.

(a.) Pertaining to Hybla, an ancient town of Sicily, famous for its bees.

(n.) A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air (hence its use in filling balloons), and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of many other substances, especially those of animal or vegetable origin. It may by produced in many ways, but is chiefly obtained by the action of acids (as sulphuric) on metals, as zinc, iron, etc. It is very inflammable, and is an ingredient of coal gas and water gas. It is standard of chemical equivalents or combining weights, and also of valence, being the typical monad. Symbol H. Atomic weight 1.

(n.) The insertion of a scion in a stock; ingraftment.

(n.) A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.

(n.) The act or preparation of charging with carbonic acid gas or with oxygen.

(n.) Same as Esculin.

(n.) A compound of nitrogen and boro/, which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride.

(n.) Of or pertaining to marriage; as, hymeneal rites.

(n.) A marriage song.

(a.) Same as Hyoid, a.

(a.) Not benign; malignant.

(n.) The god of the sun; in the later mythology identified with Apollo, and distinguished for his beauty.

(a.) Not bidden; not commanded.

(a.) Uninvited; as, unbidden guests.

(a.) Being without a prayer.

(a.) Not broken; continuous; unsubdued; as, an unbroken colt.

(v. t.) To relieve from a burden.

(v. t.) To throw off, as a burden; to unload.

(v. t.) To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.

(a.) Hypogeous.

(a.) Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage.

(n.) The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

(n.) The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.

(n.) Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.

(n.) Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.

(n.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error.

(v. t.) To indicate the position of; to place.

(a.) One who deals in optical glasses and instruments.

(a.) Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories.

(a.) Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul.

(n.) The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked.

(n.) One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.

(n.) See Syntonin.

(n.) A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians.

(n.) A poisonous snake of the Southern United States. The water moccasin (Ancistrodon piscivorus) is usually found in or near water. Above, it is olive brown, barred with black; beneath, it is brownish yellow, mottled with darker. The upland moccasin is Ancistrodon atrofuscus. They resemble rattlesnakes, but are without rattles.

(n.) A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation.

(n.) The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Prussia.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Prussia.

(n.) See Pauldron.

(n.) A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak. See Trionyx.

(n.) The act of drinking.

(n.) A draught.

(n.) Drink; beverage.

(n.) A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies.

(n.) An amorphous nitrogenous substance found in the spermatic fluid of salmon. It is soluble in water, which an alkaline reaction, and unites with acids and metallic bases.

(n.) A writer of prose.

(n.) The porch, vestibule, or entrance of an edifice.

(a.) Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious.

(n.) See Moonfish (b).

(a.) Forsaken by one's love.

(n.) A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales.

(n.) An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their romains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time.

(n.) An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.

(n.) The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement.

(n.) The act of bearing a child.

(n.) The act or method of luting vessels.

(n.) A yellow dyestuff obtained from the foliage of the dyer's broom (Reseda luteola).

(a.) Of or pertaining to Luther; adhering to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church.

(n.) One who accepts or adheres to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church.

(n.) The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.

(n.) A quantity of corn formerly given by the lord to his customary tenants, as an encouragement to, or reward for, labor and faithful service.

(n.) A lily (Lilium Martagon) with purplish red flowers, found in Europe and Asia.

(n.) One of the Metazoa.

(n.) One of the Metazoa.

(n.) A lump of food.

(n.) A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast, as between breakfast and dinner.

(v. i.) To take luncheon.

(pl. ) of Marksman

(n.) One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.

(n.) One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents.

(n.) The period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from about 29/ to 29/ days, the average length being 29 d., 12h., 44m., 2.9s.

(n.) A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and teipalmitin.

(n.) An inhabitant of the moon.

(n.) A white amorphous or crystalline substance obtained by the partial dehydration of mannite.

(a.) A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday.

(a.) A great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the poles and any given place; also, the half of such a circle included between the poles.

(n.) See Menhaden.

(n.) Alt. of Mandoline

(n.) An artist's model of wood or other material.

(n.) An officer who ascertains meres or boundaries.

(a.) Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.

(a.) Pertaining to the highest point or culmination; as, meridian splendor.

(a.) Midday; noon.

(a.) Hence: The highest point, as of success, prosperity, or the like; culmination.

(n.) The act of issuing or flowing out.

(n.) A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.

(n.) A small orange, with easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus nobilis)mandarin orange; tangerine --.

(n.) A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See Long-horned.

(n.) The act of filing or polishing.

(n.) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.

(n.) See Jetsam, 1.

(n.) A man who carries or takes care of a light.

(a.) Alt. of Malarious

(n.) A person skilled in logic.

(n.) Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.

(n.) Same as Loadsman.

(n.) Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun.

(n.) Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.

(n.) A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmitate.

(p. p.) of Overlie

(pl. ) of Headsman

(n.) An executioner who cuts off heads.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Thespis; hence, relating to the drama; dramatic; as, the Thespian art.

(n.) An actor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Thibet.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Thibet.

(n.) An iron with a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes.

(n.) The act of bending, or state of being bent.

(n.) The variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.

(a.) One more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds.

(n.) The number greater by one than twelve; the sum of ten and three; thirteen units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing thirteen units, as 13 or xiii.

(n.) Alt. of Thomean

(a.) Evasive.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Thrace.

(a.) Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet.

(v. t.) To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn.

(v. t.) To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death.

(v. i.) To use threats, or menaces; also, to have a threatening appearance.

(a.) A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees.

(v. i.) To grow; to thrive.

(n.) An Indian bustard (Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis.

(n.) One of the sect of Novatius, or Novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful.

(n.) Innovation.

(n.) A substitution of a new debt for an old one; also, the remodeling of an old obligation.

(n.) The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement.

(n.) The act of stripping, or making bare or naked.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Orkney Islands.

(n.) A bitter crystalline substance constituting the essential principle of Natal aloes. Cf. Aloon.

(n.) The act of floating on the water; swimming.

(a.) Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Numidia in Northern Africa.

(v. i.) A portion of food taken at or after noon, usually between full meals; a luncheon.

(a. & n.) Ordovician.

(n.) The act of nodding.

(n.) A very small libratory motion of the earth's axis, by which its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic is constantly varying by a small amount.

(n.) The motion of a flower in following the apparent movement of the sun, from the east in the morning to the west in the evening.

(n.) Circumnutation.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, nymphs; inhabited by nymphs; as, a nymphean cave.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Orkney islands.

(n.) An aviary; a poultry house.

(n.) The act of offering, or of making an offering.

(n.) Anything offered or presented in worship or sacred service; an offering; a sacrifice.

(n.) A gift or contribution made to a church, as for the expenses of the eucharist, or for the support of the clergy and the poor.

(adv.) The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; -- the opposite of affirmation.

(adv.) Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has.

(n.) The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness.

(n.) Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; as, an act of oblivion.

(pl. ) of Wheelman

(n.) One who rides a bicycle or tricycle; a cycler, or cyclist.

(n.) A little villa.

(v. t.) To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out.

(v. i.) To become longer.

(n.) A bastard; colloquially, a low, scurvy fellow; -- used generally in contempt, or in coarse humor. Also used adjectively.

(n.) An albuminous body, belonging to the class of globulins, obtained from yolk of egg, of which it is the chief proteid constituent, and from the seeds of many plants. From the latter it can be separated in crystalline form.

(n.) The act of raising; elevation; upward motion, as that produced by the action of a levator muscle.

(a.) Alt. of Linnean

(n.) A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.

(n.) Destined or appropriate employment; calling; occupation; trade; business; profession.

(n.) A calling by the will of God.

(n.) The bestowment of God's distinguishing grace upon a person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of salvation; as, the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and of the Gentiles under the gospel.

(n.) A call to special religious work, as to the ministry.

(n.) An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc.

(n.) A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth.

(n.) Any species of a family (Liparidae) of destructive bombycid moths, as the tussock moths.

(n.) The act of pouring a liquid or liquor, usually wine, either on the ground or on a victim in sacrifice, in honor of some deity; also, the wine or liquid thus poured out.

(n.) The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.

(n.) The result of an act or exercise of choosing or willing; a state of choice.

(n.) The power of willing or determining; will.

(n.) A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss.

(n.) A spiral turn or wreath.

(n.) A whorl of a spiral shell.

(n.) The act or power of vomiting.

(pl. ) of Liegeman

(n.) Same as Liege, n., 2.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Livonia, a district of Russia near the Baltic Sea.

(n.) A pilot.

(n.) The act or process of locating.

(n.) Situation; place; locality.

(n.) That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.

(n.) A leasing on rent.

(n.) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.

(n.) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc.

(v. t.) To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.

(v. t.) To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.

(v. t.) To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.

(v. t.) To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed.

(v. t.) To affirm; to support or defend by argument.

(n.) The act of binding, or the state of being bound.

(n.) That which binds; bond; connection.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Majorca.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Majorca.

(n.) A kind of antidote for poisons; a counter poison formerly in vogue.

(n.) One of the Oscines, or singing birds.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of dipterous files of the family Oscinidae.

(n.) See Pataca.

(n.) A kind of glass produced by volcanoes. It is usually of a black color, and opaque, except in thin splinters.

(n.) The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification.

(n.) The act or process of making obtuse or blunt.

(n.) The state of being dulled or blunted; as, the obtusion of the senses.

(n.) A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident.

(n.) A pan for baking patties.

(n.) A patty.

(n.) A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece.

(n.) A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance; convenience.

(n.) An occurrence or condition of affairs which brings with it some unlooked-for event; that which incidentally brings to pass an event, without being its efficient cause or sufficient reason; accidental or incidental cause.

(n.) Need; exigency; requirement; necessity; as, I have no occasion for firearms.

(n.) A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.

(v. t.) To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.

(n.) A killing; the act of killing.

(n.) A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts.

(n.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.

(n.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.

(n.) Same as Tent (Her.)

(n.) That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.

(n.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.

(n.) A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.

(v. t.) To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a peacock.

(n.) See Octoroon.

(n.) The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.

(a.) Inflated with wind.

(n.) The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.

(p. p.) of Outfly

(v. t.) To frown down; to overbear by frowning.

(p. p.) of Outgrow

(v. t.) To excel or surpass in learing.

(v. t.) To learn out [i. e., completely, utterly]; to exhaust knowledge of.

(p. p.) of Oversee

(n.) An overseer; a superintendent.

(n.) An umpire; a third arbiter, appointed when two arbiters, previously selected, disagree.

(adv.) Too soon.

(v. t.) To reach or extend over.

(v. t.) To spin out to too great length; to protract unduly.

(v. t.) To go beyond in reigning; to reign through the whole of, or longer than.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Typhoeus (t/*f/"/s), the fabled giant of Greek mythology, having a hundred heads; resembling Typhoeus.

(n.) The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively.

(n.) A kind of woolen.

(n.) The manatee.

(n.) A white, crystalline substance, having a bitter taste and a neutral reaction, and forming one of the essential ingredients of lactucarium.

(a.) Like, or pertaining to, Lagena, a genus of Foraminifera having a straight, chambered shell.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Laconia, a division of ancient Greece; Spartan.

(n.) An inhabitant of Laconia; esp., a Spartan.

(n.) A reed instrument of music of the cornet kind, now obsolete (see Cornet, 1, a.).

(a.) A reed stop in the organ; -- sometimes called cremona.

(n.) An individual of one of the races of aboriginal inhabitants which survive in Hindostan.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Kolarians.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Kurile Islands, a chain of islands in the Pacific ocean, extending from the southern extremity of Kamschatka to Yesso.

(n.) A native or an inhabitant of the Kurile Islands.

(n.) A small pan or cup.

(a.) Pertaining to the perigee.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng.

(n.) One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician.

(n.) One of the common people, or lower rank of men.

(n.) See Parergy.

(n.) A glucoside resembling saponin, found in the root of sarsaparilla, smilax, etc., and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; -- called also smilacin, sarsaparilla saponin, and sarsaparillin.

(n.) Alt. of Plethrum

(n.) A parishioner.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Paris, the capital of France.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Paris.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Parma in Italy.

(n.) A delaying tarrying; delay.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.

(n.) One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reestablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter.

(pl. ) of Woodsman

(n.) A woodman; especially, one who lives in the forest.

(n.) A yellow dyestuff extracted from the root bark of an East Indian plant (Morinda citrifolia).

(a.) Of or pertaining to Morocco, or its inhabitants.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Miletus, a city of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants.

(a.) Descended from King Milesius of Spain, whose two sons are said to have conquered Ireland about 1300 b. c.; or pertaining to the descendants of King Milesius; hence, Irish.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Miletus.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Ireland.

(a.) Of or relating to Morpheus, to dreams, or to sleep.

(n.) One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist.

(n.) Any one of several species of Manis, Pholidotus, and related genera, found in Africa and Asia. They are covered with imbricated scales, and feed upon ants. Called also scaly ant-eater.

(n.) Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.

(n.) A man who controls a motor.

(n.) A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an eminence higher than a hill; a mount.

(n.) A range, chain, or group of such elevations; as, the White Mountains.

(n.) A mountainlike mass; something of great bulk.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines; mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer.

(a.) Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great.

(Archaic) of Wreathe

(a.) Twisted; made into a wreath.

(n.) A little mouse.

(n.) The act of joining, or the state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths.

(n.) The place or point of union, meeting, or junction; specifically, the place where two or more lines of railway meet or cross.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Xanthus, an ancient town on Asia Minor; -- applied especially to certain marbles found near that place, and now in the British Museum.

(n.) An extinct genus of artiodactylous mammals found in the European Tertiary formations. It had slender legs, didactylous feet, and small canine teeth.

(n.) A substance resembling pyroxylin, obtained by the action of nitric acid on starch; -- called also nitramidin.

(n.) A derivative of xylene obtained as a white crystalline substance which on exposure in the air becomes red; -- called also betaorcin.

(n.) See Yachtsman.

(p. p.) of Misbede

() p. p. of Misbede.

(v. i.) To feign with an evil design.

(p. p.) of Misgive

(n.) A long knife, or short saber, common among Mohammedan nations, usually having a double curve, sometimes nearly straight.

(v. t.) To learn wrongly.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the New World, or Western Hemisphere.

(p. p.) of Mistake

(p.a.) Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken.

(p.a.) Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.

(v. t.) To train amiss.

(n.) Same as Mangcorn.

(n.) Fortification; stronghold.

(n.) Whatever materials are used in war for defense or for annoying an enemy; ammunition; also, stores and provisions; military stores of all kinds.

(a.) Having the properties of a panacea.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sea; marine; pelagic; as, pelagian shells.

(n.) A follower of Pelagius, a British monk, born in the later part of the 4th century, who denied the doctrines of hereditary sin, of the connection between sin and death, and of conversion through grace.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Pelagius, or to his doctrines.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Filippo Pacini, an Italian physician of the 19th century.

(a.) Alt. of Plumbeous

(p. p.) of Partake

(a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia.

(n.) A native Parthia.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Peru, in South America.

(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Peru.

(n.) An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.

(n.) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.

(n.) Any member of such a corps.

(a.) Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal.

(a.) Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps.

(n.) A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff.

(n.) A nonoxygenous ptomaine, formed in the putrefaction of albuminous matters, especially of horseflesh and mackerel.

(pl. ) of Peterman

(n.) A fisherman; -- so called after the apostle Peter.

(n.) A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer.

(n.) A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law), a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or right; -- in distinction from a memorial, which calls certain facts to mind; also, the written document.

(v. t.) To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to solicit; to entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication, or application to, as to any branch of the government; as, to petition the court; to petition the governor.

(v. i.) To make a petition or solicitation.

(n.) The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.

(n.) A genus of oceanic birds including the tropic birds.

(n.) See Praenomen.

(pl. ) of Placeman

(n.) One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government.

(n.) A plane figure having five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles.

(n.) A Celtic monument, commonly known as a dolmen.

(n.) Alt. of Kingstone

(a.) Born at the same birth.

(n.) A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime.

(n.) A pin used to prevent the wheel of a vehicle from sliding off the axletree.

(a.) Of noble birth.

(n.) the act of becoming a pupa.